10 Big News stories you aren't hearing....

[marmar]

Ten Big News Stories You Aren't Hearing
Submitted by danielifearn on Thu, 2006-09-14 03:13. Media
By Thomas Kostigen
MarketWatch
Friday 08 September 2006

Traditional media ignore or downplay significant events.

Santa Monica, California - The San Francisco Bay Guardian newspaper has printed a list of stories we in the media seem to have largely ignored over the past year. The story is gleaned from an annual list developed by Project Censored, a media research group out of Sonoma State University that tracks the news published in independent journals and newsletters.

It's a provocative and eye-opening list that warrants attention, especially from the media. And each year it usually gets it, as Salon comments, out of "guilt."

In a great example of how certain stories play out, San Francisco Bay Guardian reporter Sarah Phelan opens her article by citing the play two news items recently received on the same day they broke: In Detroit, U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor ruled that the Bush administration's warrantless National Security Agency surveillance program was unconstitutional and must end. Meanwhile, somewhere in Thailand, a weirdo named John Mark Karr claimed he was with six-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey when she died in 1996.

We all know which story received the most attention. Here are the Top 10 most ignored stories. I've had to condense them for space considerations, but their headlines should tell enough of a story:

1. The Feds and the Media Muddy the Debate Over Internet Freedom

The Supreme Court ruled that giant cable companies aren't required to share their wires with other Internet service providers. The issue was misleadingly framed as an argument over regulation, when it's really a case of the Federal Communications Commission and Congress talking about giving cable and telephone companies the freedom to control supply and content - a decision that could have them playing favorites and forcing consumers to pay to get information and services that currently are free.

Source: "Web of Deceit: How Internet Freedom Got the Federal Ax, and Why Corporate News Censored the Story," Elliot D. Cohen, BuzzFlash.com, July 18, 2005.

2. Halliburton Charged With Selling Nuclear Technology to Iran

Halliburton, the notorious U.S. energy company, sold key nuclear-reactor components to a private Iranian oil company called Oriental Oil Kish as recently as 2005, using offshore subsidiaries to circumvent U.S. sanctions. The story is particularly juicy because Vice President Dick Cheney, who now claims to want to stop Iran from getting nukes, was president of Halliburton in the mid-1990s, at which time he may have advocated business dealings with Iran, in violation of U.S. law.

Source: "Halliburton Secretly Doing Business with Key Member of Iran's Nuclear Team," Jason Leopold, GlobalResearch.ca, Aug. 5, 2005.

3. World Oceans in Extreme Danger

Governments deny global warming is happening as they rush to map the ocean floor in the hopes of claiming rights to oil, gas, gold, diamonds, copper, zinc and the planet's last pristine fishing grounds. Researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 2005 found "the first clear evidence that the world ocean is growing warmer," including the discovery "that the top half-mile of the ocean has warmed dramatically in the past 40 years as the result of humaninduced greenhouse gases."

The rest of the article is at: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/14190

[texpatriot2004]

1. Thank you AfterDowningStreet nm

[marmar]

8. I know. I love that website.

:applause:

[dogday]

2. Halliburton selling nuclear-reactor components

to a private Iranian oil company called Oriental Oil Kish as recently as 2005...

Someone should ask Dead-eye Dick about this.....

[marmar]

5. "Someone should ask Dead-eye Dick about this....."

And risk getting blasted in the face? :scared: :)

[JHB]

7. He only blasts his friends...

...you are more likely to be "extraordinarily renditioned" for your "terrorist ties".

[niceypoo]

3. The main one we aren't hearing is GLOBAL WARMING

its a bigger threat to humanity than war, terrorism and the rapture right combined. Note networks like CNN and MSNBC have these generic commercials from the oil industry bragging how clean they keep the environment and how "carbon dioxide is life". Their news content is controlled by big oil thus the situation is largely ignored.

[FearofFutility]

4. I have to say I disagree

Global warming is reported on quite often. That,however, has not translated in action.

[marmar]

6. We're hearing more thanks to "An Incovenient Truth", but...

we're not hearing nearly enough. All the wars, economic breakdowns and every other problem in the world won't matter if we all bake.

[dr.rock]

9. Good post, #2 esp, important! NT

[marmar]

11. Agreed....That was news to me.

:think:

[texpatriot2004]

10. kick nm

[wildbilln864]

12. Excellent post marmar!

Keep it up. thank you!